I was happy to see that after a long absence, the Sask Blogs aggregator is back up and running, better than ever. I was perusing it last night and happened upon a post on “Giant Political Mouse“, a lefty web site that focuses mostly on Saskatchewan politics. This post mentioned that the provincial NDP leadership […]
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Little Mosque on the Prairie & Indian Head, Saskatchewan
My hometown served as a backdrop for many of the exterior shots of the CBC comedy, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”. (Saskatchewan has a film tax credit that gives incentives for productions to shoot here and increases the benefit if you shoot a certain distance outside our cities. Indian Head is just outside this zone, […]
The Most Important Site of the Day…
…is the NORAD Santa Tracker. He's almost here!!!
Music Monday – "Go laddie go, don't you ever forget where you're from"
They say you can't truly know your parents until you become one yourself…
Some Random Thoughts on the Sask Book Awards
Went to the Sask Book Awards tonight and if I'm counting right, it was my 10th anniversary attending the event. (I've gone every year since 1997 except for 2006 when a little side trip to Ontario got in the way. And even that year, as I was wrapping up my time at FIMS, I was […]
Maybe Saskatchewan's (Dairy Cows Are) On To Something After All
Saskatchewan is the only province in Canada that doesn't observe daylight saving time and the commonly accepted wisdom here is that the reason for this decision has to do with the fact that the time swap would be hugely disruptive to dairy cows – which apparently don't exist elsewhere in Canada. (Oh, and in […]
A Celebrity Filled Day (Yes, In Regina)
Went over to the downtown mall for lunch today as I forgot my customary lunch o' leftovers. It was packed in the food court so I ended up sharing a table with a guy who turned out to be the guitarist from a band who were a bit of a one-hit wonder in the early […]
Saskatchewan SILS Project Gets Government Funding
After being skipped over in the most recent budget, Saskatchewan's public libraries are overjoyed that the Provincial Government announced yesterday that they will be putting $5 million towards the Single Integrated Library System project over the next few years. SILS will create a single card system for the entire province, something that was previously not […]
Rural Saskatchewan Library Director Sentenced to Two Years for Nearly $1 million in Fraud at Library
A Saskatchewan library director who defrauded his system of half a million dollars (and possibly as much as one million dollars though that wasn't proven) over a period of fourteen years via orders to a false US-based publisher that he'd set up himself was sentenced earlier this week to two years in prison less a […]
Let's say that…
…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province. What would you include? What approach would you take? In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study […]